Word: duke
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Married. Lady Mary Scott, goddaughter of H. M. the Queen-Empress Mary, daughter of the seventh Duke of Buccleuch; and Lord David Burghley, famed track athlete of Cambridge and the Olympic games, eldest son & heir of the fifth Marquess of Exeter; in London...
Died. Benjamin Newton Duke, 73, last of the famed Duke tobacco tycoons & philanthropists (Duke University), of Durham, N. C.; of acute bronchitis; in Manhattan. Mr. Duke was a son of the founder of American Tobacco Co.. (Lucky Strike,Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall), art collector, financier (water power, real estate, railroads, banking). To his daughter, Mrs. Mary L. Duke Biddle, wife of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., socialite & televisionist of Philadelphia and Manhattan, Mr. Duke left a substantial share of his $60.000,000 fortune...
Present when death came were Grand Duke Peter and representatives of the ''White Russian Army," organized by the late Baron Wrangel (TIME, May 7), pledged to the Grand Duke Nicholas, and now left desolate in Jugoslavia and Rumania, where the "soldiers" work as laborers...
...incontestably legal heir to Russia's vanished Throne is now the Grand Duke Cyril Yladimirovitch, a bitter rival of Nicholas, who long since proclaimed himself ''Tsar of Russia...
Died. Nicholas Nicholaievitch, 72, Grand Duke of Russia; of protracted pneumonia; at Cap d' Antibes, French Riviera...